Hello, Fred Mannis, and all here, is a pleasure to me talk about Olympic Free Pistol, I want to answer your question about why I think, I suggest, and why I have a presumption of score 581, fixed by Aleander Melentieve in Olympics Games in Moscow `80 is something to think and analysing, we are in talk forum where all give ours opinions to share together.
When I said it, I was thinking in “loud voice” about a presumption in my mind, which I wanted to share to all people here in this talk forum who`s love Shooting Free Pistol, is Not an accusation as Brian Zins said in this forum, I m a Free Pistol Shooter 10 years ago, and I really know what`s Free Pistol Olympic Event means. In International Law the “Presumption” is a valid probation of evidence, but I don’t want that, I only want to share something that grow up in my mind about something what I, and very much people are interested, and do with passion and courage: Shooting Free Pistol.
I don’t think about drug assist in him, like said Laszlo and Raymond Odle (who I think is right in his opinion) in this talk forum, but could be the case, remember what said a soccer player Diego Armando Maradona “…people say I became that I was playing soccer in world, due cocaine consumption, people is wrong because this drug in this specific sport is the worst thing you can use for that.” In case of pistol shooters is the same case, here body is not most important because just a shooter needs a technique to shot, technique is the manner to do some thing, and to do something, we have millions of manners to do this; for that use your own and personal technique, everybody are physical different. Shoot is in a high percent a mental sport (mental game), I mean, playing in who controls body actions in shooting, your body or your mind, best shooter almost never is the strongest, the highest, the smartest, to me best shooter is who really want to be the best and make it possible by training, who never give up, who knows how to learn to shot, to think correctly, to take control of about what are you thinking in precise moment of make your shot, of pulling your trigger and what you are watching in this precise moment of every single shot, if you have hear what say Lanny Bassham (Gold Olympic Champion in Montreal Canada in 1976 and two time World Champion) you can understand me about what im talking about.
Not either I refer to bettered or not 581/600 score, as opinion of Mikel said, all is possible for humans, secret is in how, not in if we can or we can not. In 1995, Taniu Kiriakov of Bulgaria, back in the 580`s with a 580 preliminary at the UIT World Cup celebrated in Hiroshima Japan.
I suggest, like David Levene said. A presumption about if really happened that all people thinks and knows happened in Olympics Games of Moscow in Free Pistol Event, I want to said “it was too much 580/600” for this specific time, in this specific place, in that specific Olympics Games.
I thinking about a few important things to found my presumption, in first place:
The specific historical moment that world have had in this time, “The Cold War”. Everybody knew, what represent being in first place of medallist list at moment Olympics Games ends in Moscow `80. ¿ Who was the first Free Pistol Gold Medallist in Olympics Games of Athenas 1896 ?, I said “the first”, nobody are interested in who was “the second”, ¿ Who was the first in travel or orbit in space, ¿ Who was the first in put a step in the moon ?, ¿ Of who was in past “The Queen” ? (Free Pistol event is denominated Queen of all events in Olympic Shooting, it was first pistol event and never had have changes since 1896 , (who shot Free Pistol know why), since 1946 to 1989 always the answer in world for that questions were: An American, A Sovietic, An American, A Sovietic.
Shooting sport is an martial aspect of war. ¿ Which other olympic sport have it, a martial aspect. Is same thing today, what significance to all the world had been China first medallist place in Olympics Games Athenas in 2004, in past it was used to speculate, today is a reality, all the “Cold War” was a world speculation between two countries. Today we are not only living in Globalizated world, we are living in a Globalichainesse world, just wait for Bejing 2008, they will show to the world who is China today.
In second place, if we are talking about a specific event of Free Pistol, and talking about Alexander Melentieve, we can not talk about “extremely talent” to do 581/600 like said David Levene in this talk forum, because real talent in a person to do something is permanent, or at least is for a period of time; who was Alexander Melentieve (like a international and “Elite” shooter, of course.) before and after Moscow 80, he never won in Free Pistol other medal (gold, silver or bronze) in Olympics Games before, not either after. He never won a Free Pistol World Championship before, not either after, which were his scoring during his international events ?. Take in consideration how have been developed Free Pistol scorings through history of Free Pistol Olympics Games event, we start in Athenas 1896 scoring of 442/600 by Pain Sumner from USA who won firs Gold Medal in Free Pistol event. If we put Moscow `80, between ten Olympics Games, I mean 5 Olympics Games before and 5 Olympics Games after Moscow ´80 and we take average of scoring shooters level humility (only gold medallist) we can find average of 564/600 (not decimal and preliminary event scoring) before Moscow `80, and average of 567/600 after Moscow `80, here line of growing in scoring is nomal, how someone shooter could shot 581/600 from night to morning, without previously high international ranking or presence in scoring list like 580’s/600, we have an anormal statistics. Some people think about it happened to him: (like a David Levene opinions) “it was his day”, “he had a good day”, “he was inspired”, in my opinion this kind of things not really happen to a Olympic shooter, in reality Olympic Shooting go beyond of subjective and dogmatic things. I training in my shooting club to shot well, I not pray to shoot well or wait for my great day or moment. Let me make a comparison between Alexande Melentieve like a really and extremely talent of all times in Free Pistol shooter: Ragnar Skanaker from Sweden, he was in an international activity for more than 20 years shooting average scoring in his carer of 565/600, in 4 Olympics Games, Munich 1972 567/600 Gold Medallist, L.A. 1984 565/600 Silver Medallist, Seoul 1988 564/600 Silver Medallist, Barcelona 1992 566/600 Bronze Medallist.
I wrote this to share my own opinion about 581/600, not to make an acusation.
The first pistol event in the world championships was the free pistol that was established in 1900. Throughout it’s long history the free pistol target is only one of two targets that has never been change except for the addition of an "X" ring.
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